Maybe I'm missing something but this just seems to be a guy playing with magnets? In the "Demonstration of Ion Propulsion" video, he shows how the magnet "shoots" through the ring, but it's just the release of potential energy from forcing the opposing poles together in the first place. It's like those "permanent magnet rail guns" people post on YouTube. I don't see what's novel about it.
beneath the fancy graphics there's zero explanation of how these are manufactured, how they're constructed, or the magnetic field patterns. No actual deployments or demonstrated applications, just graphics. It's a 3-person company that "expects to begin testing of this exciting new technology early in the 2nd quarter of 2023".
Howard JOHNSON, Permanent Magnet Motor http://www.rexresearch.com/johnson/1johnson.htm - is that similar ?
( https://patents.google.com/patent/US4877983A/en expired 2006, https://www.freepatentsonline.com/4877983.html )
Edit: https://www.paranetics.com/electric-motors - there is more details. And parametric motor https://patents.google.com/patent/JPH04344155A/en is more similar.
(and magnetic experiments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZaRMt6xhoE explains a lot nicely)
Maybe I'm missing something but this just seems to be a guy playing with magnets? In the "Demonstration of Ion Propulsion" video, he shows how the magnet "shoots" through the ring, but it's just the release of potential energy from forcing the opposing poles together in the first place. It's like those "permanent magnet rail guns" people post on YouTube. I don't see what's novel about it.
beneath the fancy graphics there's zero explanation of how these are manufactured, how they're constructed, or the magnetic field patterns. No actual deployments or demonstrated applications, just graphics. It's a 3-person company that "expects to begin testing of this exciting new technology early in the 2nd quarter of 2023".
Don't talk about it, be about it.
What advantage would this have over a rotary Hallbach array?